MENC corporate members include businesses offering a variety of fund-raising resources for music educators.  

To help with deciphering between the different types of fund-raising programs and services, here are a few brief descriptions of the methods you may find:

Product Specific Companies - offer fund-raising through sales of their specialty item

Multiple Product Companies - offer a great breadth of choices within one company

Discount Cards - cost a few dollars to produce and are sold to customers who use the cards to receive free merchandise or discounts at local merchants

Scratch Cards - donors scratch one or more dots to reveal their donation (donation amount only achieved if all dots are scratched on the card; usually cards are non-refundable if not used)

Point/Rebate Programs - offer merchandise to schools in return for product labels, or provide rebate money based on a customer?s purchases

On-Line Shopping Malls - offer on-line shopping with rebates to the school of choice by:

• participating in an established Web Mall, offering customers the opportunity to assign rebates to the charity of choice
• creating a personalized Web page for the school organization, which is linked to a Web ring of specific store choices

Important Note: Be sure to check out server security, donor list sales, frequency of reporting, and accountability before signing up your organization.

CD Duplication Services - opportunities for the duplication and packaging of a master recording at reasonable rates

Event Opportunities - mostly available at a regional level (gourmet chefs, art auctions, sports or artistic competitions, and fairs)

Ticket Production - production of tickets/ticket-software for events, raffles, and other charity game uses